“Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.”

You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God’s love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

If you find a perfect church don’t join it: You’d spoil it.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.

I can’t imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I’m regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I’m developing and learning.

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.